- Components
- Hard Drives - Internal
- 2.5" IDE Hard Drives
- Product Details
Western Digital WD2500BEVE 250GB 2.5" Hard Drive ATA100 5400rpm 8MB Cache - OEM Scorpio Blue
- quickfind code: 132386
- manufacturer #: WD2500BEVE
Buying Information
208 in stock for next day delivery
Tuesday, 14th September
23 reviewsOverview
Product Description
To make drive selection simple, we've gathered all our popular 5400 RPM WD Scorpio drives under one umbrella we call WD Scorpio Blue. Built to Western Digital's awarding winning quality standards, these drives are available in a full range of performance features.- Huge capacity - Whether they are in an external drive or a notebook computer, WD Scorpio Blue ATA100 drives are available in capacities up to 320 GB and offer the most available capacity for space-hungry operating systems, like Windows Vista®, with plenty of room left over for photos, music, and video.
- Fast and efficient - With 5400 RPM spin speed and 12 ms access time even the most demanding customer will appreciate the performance achieved by WD Scorpio Blue drives.
- Quiet - In a notebook drive, silence is golden. WD's exclusive WhisperDrive combines state-of-the-art seeking algorithms to yield one of the quietest 2.5-inch hard drives on the market. These algorithms also optimize the way a drive seeks for data, which significantly improves power consumption. So now silence (and longer battery life) is golden.
- Reliable and rugged - WD's ShockGuard technology protects the drive mechanics and platter surfaces from shocks. WD's SecurePark parks the recording heads off the disk surface during spin up, spin down, and when the drive is off. This ensures the recording head never touches the disk surface resulting in improved long-term reliability due to less head wear, and improved non-operational shock tolerance.
- Tested for compatibility - We perform tests on hundreds of systems and a multitude of platforms in our FIT Lab and Mobile Compatibility Lab to give our customers confidence that our drives will work in their systems.
- Ideal for Portable digital devices of all kinds, including notebook computers, external storage, and digital media players.
Specification
Product Specifications
General | |
|---|---|
| Device Type | Hard drive - internal |
| Width | 7 cm |
| Depth | 10 cm |
| Height | 9.5 mm |
| Weight | 117 g |
Hard Drive | |
| Form Factor | 2.5" x 1/8H |
| Capacity | 250 GB |
| Interface Type | ATA-100 |
| Buffer Size | 8 MB |
| Features | Shock Guard, WhisperDrive, DuraStep Ramp |
| Compliant Standards | S.M.A.R.T. |
Performance | |
| Drive Transfer Rate | 100 MBps (external) |
| Seek Time | 12 ms (average) / 21 ms (max) |
| Track-to-Track Seek Time | 2 ms |
| Average Latency | 5.5 ms |
| Spindle Speed | 5400 rpm |
Reliability | |
| Non-Recoverable Errors | 1 per 10^14 |
| Start / Stop Cycles | 600,000 |
Expansion / Connectivity | |
| Interfaces | 1 x ATA-100 - 44 PIN IDC |
| Compatible Bays | 1 x internal - 2.5" x 1/8H |
Miscellaneous | |
| Works with Windows Vista | Software and devices that carry the Works with Windows Vista logo have been tested for baseline compatibility with PC's running. |
| Compliant Standards | RoHS |
Manufacturer Warranty | |
| Service & Support | 3 years warranty |
| Service & Support Details | Limited warranty - 3 years |
Environmental Parameters | |
| Min Operating Temperature | 5 °C |
| Max Operating Temperature | 60 °C |
| Humidity Range Operating | 8 - 90% |
| Shock Tolerance | 250 g @ 2ms (operating) / 900 g @ 1ms (non-operating) |
| Vibration Tolerance | 1 g @ 5-300 Hz (operating) |
| Sound Emission | 22 dBA |
Related Products
Hard Drive Accessories
USB / Firewire / I/O & HBA
Hard Drive Accessories
Product Reviews
Ebuyer.com customer reviews give you the chance to give your opinion on the latest technology products. See what customers had to say about this product below. To view more reviews or write your own review, use either of the buttons below.
Perfect for Aluminium PowerBook G4
operating system:Mac OSXBought it for my PB G4 as a replacement for 80GB Toshiba IDE hard drive.
First of all, a word of praise for eBuyer stuff who proved very efficient in processing my order.
A word of warning - if you intend on putting it in yourself - it can be a bit tricky. Luckily, there is a full set of instructions with photographs on iFixIt. Once replaced, I had to partition it with Disk Utility and away I went, installing Tiger. Working absolutely great, much better than Toshiba - faster and quieter at the same time.
Overall am very pleased with my purchase. Price is very competitive too - I paid bp77 in January, still the lowest I could find.
Best Hard drive maker to date!
operating system:Not ApplicableThe amount of time I have used western digital drives going on 8 years now, they have never let me down once I still have the Caviar 40GB the drive is around 8 years old and been in 2 diffrent PC's and still going strong in my old Mesh AMD machine that I have since given to my younger brother, Western Digital drives are the most reliable brand to date, I would recommend 250/500GB models for IDE or otherwise for SATA I would recommend Western Digital Raptor drives.
Brill
Great hard-drive with a great price, hav'nt seen one this big at this price, would recomend, runs alot better than the toshiba 80GB one Used to have. Makes my Intel Celeron M Proscssor run like an intel core duo (when i put in the ebuyers own 1gb ram). Is a little fidily to install but fits in the end, (I put it in an acer Aspire 3669).
What an incredible buy!
Works fine in a 15" Powerbook!
operating system:Mac OSXI bought this drive to install into my 15" 1.5Ghz Powerbook to give it a little bit more life.
I can confirm that it works perfectly, and is very quiet. I found a install guide on ifixit.com
I also bought this caddy -> http://www.ebuyer.com/product/118506 to put my old powerbook hard drive in. Just so everyone knows, this drive draws a little bit too much power to be powered by Firewire/USB Alone in this enclosure. Needs the power also (cable supplied). Tested with the built in hard drive, and this wonderful WD 250gb jobby.
As always prompt delivery service from ebuyer.
Excelent drive for Dell Inspiron 2200
operating system:Windows XPExcellent service and quick delivery as always.
Bought this drive to replace the 40GB drive in my Dell Inspiron 2200.
As with the other review, my Dell Inspiron 2200 Bios would only recognise the hard drives upto 137gb.
Not a problem just ignore it,boot from the Dell XP-Recovery CD which installed XP and then the full capacity was recognised.
The only problem is now theres so much space on C-Drive IT ECHOES !!
Very Good Drive, so get one for your Dell Inspiron NOW .
Harddrive upgrade
operating system:Windows XPI bought this to upgrade my Dell Inspiron 60Gb drive to get more space and wanted to replace the drive on a like for like basis, keeping all of the programs and not having to reload them all. I'm not a techy and this worked, so I hope that this description will help someone doing the same. You need to buy a USB to IDE adaptor as well to enable you to clone the drive. I got the Plexus one, ref number 130517. You can download Data lifeguard software from the Western Digital website to copy the drive. I tried this and it copied ok, but some of the programs, particularly the microsoft ones would not run. I did a system restore to get rid of the WD software and downloaded a copy of Acronis True Image Home (free for 15 day trial). Using the clone feature and selecting automatic mode it was very easy. Basically, you plug the new drive into a USB port via the adaptor, and clone the existing drive to it. I have put the new drive in and everything seems to work fine. The old drive was a Hitachi 7200RPM. The WD drive is a 5400RPM but files are opening much much quicker. Must be to do with the 8Mb cache. Overall then 10 out of 10. Usual fast delivery from Ebuyer.
250gb IDE HDD at last
when is this going tobe available? i want it bad!!
Ease of Use & Capacity
This drive was bought with a view to data migration from 40GB and to give capacity for future MPEG4 CCTV recordings owing to vandal problems. First job was to fit it in a caddy. The caddy disc is unfortunately not Partition Magic et al but just drivers for Win 98SE (not needed for XP SP2) The drive does not actually appear as a drive but appears as "USB mass storage device". 235GB is shown in "properties". Probably enough capacity to hold biometric ID card details for an entire country! Small enough to fit in a pocket, absolutely amazing!
Excellent, solid, fast hard drive!
operating system:Windows XPBought this drive to replace the 120GB Hitachi that I had to replace the original drive in my X31 Thinkpad. This drive is far better. It is significantly faster and 250GB of space on a laptop is invaluable. I have used Western Digitals since I first had a 1.2GB Western Digital Caviar drive back in 1996. Its still going! Western Digital drives are very reliable and will last for years. I currently have a WD 500GB and thats an amazing drive too.
Get one!
Amazing, after I could get it to work in my Inspiron
operating system:Windows XPExcellent service from ebuyer as always. I had a small issue as my Dell Inspiron is too old to recognise hard drives larger than 137gb. Solution - downloaded Data Lifeguard Tools from the Western Digital website, booted the CD from DOS and partitioned using the tools, then installed XP and, once it had updated to SP2, the full capacity was recognised. Very happy.
Product Discussion
Join in with the Ebuyer product discussions today to ask questions, exchange stories and share opinions with other Ebuyer customers who have bought this product.
So far there are 4 replies to the discussion.
Write a question or comment about this product
Where will my message be posted?
Your message will be posted on the discussion page for this product where you can also
view responses and questions from other Ebuyer customers.
Bookmark / Share
